The Life of Oharu
Kinuyo Tanaka Retrospective
March 18 - 27, 2022
Perhaps the most sublimely devastating of master director Kenji Mizoguchi’s celebrated collaborations with Tanaka, The Life of Oharu stars the actress as a once-proud concubine whose tragic fate is governed by the callous whims of men.
Perhaps the most sublimely devastating of master director Kenji Mizoguchi’s celebrated collaborations with Tanaka, The Life of Oharu stars the actress as a once-proud concubine whose tragic fate is governed by the callous whims of men and the cruel jealousies of women as she slides into a life of prostitution in Edo-era Japan. Sensitive as always to the rigid social structures that subjugate his heroines, around whom the subtlest movement or camera angle is calibrated for maximum heartbreak effect, Mizoguchi offers a finely wrought, small-gesture melodrama to Tanaka, who in a single film inhabits a perfect synthesis of her most iconic roles—from noble lady, mother, and middle-class wife to geisha, prostitute, and pilgrim.
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